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One could reasonably attribute the ‘Mr. Leader’ comment to the generally American practice of addressing by title. (Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, etc, etc.) But the rest, just wow. Just one massive facepalm.

Even if these snubs aren’t really that bad, the Obama campaign will absolutely pull them out if Mitty Poo even hints at foreign policy stuff.

As TPM points out, Romney has undercut his entire foreign relations strategy against Obama, in one fell swoop. His entire meme was going to be how Obama’s policies have diminished America’s standing in the eyes of our allies – a somewhat specious claim to begin with, but now utterly impossible to maintain. Just today, Romney surrogates are backpedaling, claiming that it doesn’t really matter what the foreigners and their press think of America. Advantage: Obama.

The British Embassy confirms that it has the Churchill Bust. You need to take your talking points from someone besides the Gray Lady, Eric.

And the NY Times needs to take its talking points from somebody besides WH blogger Dan Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer was unaware that the WH had TWO Churchill busts. The one in the oval office (which Mitt will retrieve on 1/21/13) was indeed returned to the Brits by Little Barry. The one outside the Treaty Room (the one Pfeiffer mistook) remains.

Looks like Jay Carney (what’s the Capital of Israel?) is not the only rank amateur flack on the payroll.

And pretending that Obammy didn’t choose the exact seventieth anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland to abrogate a missle defense pact with the Poles.

And pretending that he didn’t insult the Brits by taking a neutral position on Argentina’s recent gum-flapping on the Falkland Islands (which Little Barry tried to suck up to Argentina by calling the Malvinas, but calling them the “Maldives” instead).

Or pretending that Mideast Community Organizer Barry didn’t set the peace process back a half dozen years by insisting on concessions by Israel in favor of the friendly folks at Hamas–leading the Palestinian president to stop negotiating and wait for the U.S. to “deliver Israel”, as he described it to the WashPost.

Have we accounted for all three stops on Mitt’s foreign trip? Little Barry having previously defecated in the diplomatic bedclothes at each of them.

This sojourn aptly foretells the disastrous foreign policy that a Romney administration will embody. If this sort of treatment is what’s afforded to allies, one can only imagine what will be done to bully those nations who’re neutral or opposed to his objectives. To accomplish those objectives, he’ll likely engage the services of the gasbag-dolt, trigger happy John Bolton as Secretary of State.